Archive for the 'War' Category
Pentagon Wants ‘Space Junk’ Cleaned Up
September 21st, 2009What will be cleaned up first? Orbital space junk, or the plastic apocalypse in the Pacific Ocean? Hmm. Via: Wired: The orbit around Earth is a very messy place and the Pentagon’s far-out research arm wants to do something about it. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a notice yesterday requesting information on […]
Top U.S. Commander for Afghan War: More Forces or ‘Mission Failure’
September 21st, 2009Failure? Someone wound up with a whole lot of opium and heroin, and a bunch of corporations made a killing from a gusher of absurd and lucrative contracts. That sounds more like just another day at the office than failure to me—considering the criminal organizations involved and their blood soaked gravy train. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s […]
Iraq Emerging as Drug Transshipment Point
September 20th, 2009Via: Al Jazeera:
Air Force Training More Drone Pilots Than New Fighter and Bomber Pilots
September 20th, 2009Via: Newsweek: In 2007, the year before Schwartz became chief, UAVs were performing 21 combat air patrols at any one time, for a total of just over 100,000 hours. By 2011, they’ll reach 54 patrols and almost 350,000 hours. For now, the joystick pilots have to be certified fighter pilots as well. But Schwartz says […]
Flashback: Obama Offered Deal to Russia in Secret Letter
September 18th, 2009Via: New York Times: President Obama sent a secret letter to Russia’s president last month suggesting that he would back off deploying a new missile defense system in Eastern Europe if Moscow would help stop Iran from developing long-range weapons, American officials said Monday. The letter to President Dmitri A. Medvedev was hand-delivered in Moscow […]
Police to Get Access to Classified Military Intelligence
September 17th, 2009Via: U.S. Department of Defense: IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 713-09 September 14, 2009 DoD Announces New Information-Sharing Access to Help Fusion Centers Combat Terrorism The Departments of Defense (DoD) and Homeland Security (DHS) today announced an initiative to grant select state and major urban area fusion center personnel access to classified terrorism-related information residing in DoD’s […]
This Week in Directed Energy Pain Weapons
September 17th, 2009Via: Wired: Whether you’re trying to control a disturbance at a food-distribution center, get a convoy through a packed junction or determine who the bad guys are in a crowd, it’s not always a good idea to have a lethal force as your only option. That, at least, is the thinking behind the Thermal Laser […]
U.S. Special Operations Command Pays General Dynamics $10 Million to Peddle Bullshit “Web-Based Influence Products and Tools in Support of Strategic and Long-Term U.S. Government Goals”
September 16th, 2009
Via: Register: The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”. … Now SOCOM’s Joint Military Information Support Command, which “orchestrates a 24/7 multi-media […]
Unmanned Systems North America 2008
September 16th, 2009Research Credit: Pookie
Military Robot Hops Over Walls
September 16th, 2009Via: BBC: Video footage has been released of a robot that can leap over obstacles more than 7.5m (25ft) high. Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot – which is being developed for the US military – uses its four wheels to get around. But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated “leg” to […]
